Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2011-47

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2011-47 Title: Potential XSS against sites using Shift-JIS Impact: High Announced: November 8, 2011 Reporter: Yosuke Hasegawa Products: Firefox, Thunderbird Fixed in: Firefox 8.0 Firefox 3.6.24 Thunderbird 8.0 Thunderbird 3.1.16 Description Yosuke Hasegawa...

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2011-50

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2011-50 Title: Cross-origin data theft using canvas and Windows D2D Impact: High Announced: November 8, 2011 Reporter: Products: Firefox, Thunderbird Fixed in: Firefox 8.0 Thunderbird 8.0 Description Mozilla developer Bas Schouten reported that the introductio...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : firefox, xulrunner-1.9.2 vulnerabilities (USN-1251-1)

It was discovered that CVE-2011-3004, which addressed possible privilege escalation in addons, also affected Firefox 3.6. An attacker could potentially exploit Firefox when an add-on was installed that used loadSubscript in vulnerable ways. CVE-2011-3647 Yosuke Hasegawa discovered that the Mozill...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1251-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-1251-1: Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities

It was discovered that CVE-2011-3004, which addressed possible privilege escalation in addons, also affected Firefox 3.6. An attacker could potentially exploit Firefox when an add-on was installed that used loadSubscript in vulnerable ways. CVE-2011-3647 Yosuke Hasegawa discovered that the Mozill...

FreeBSD : mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities (6c8ad3e8-0a30-11e1-9580-4061862b8c22)

The Mozilla Project reports : MFSA 2011-46 loadSubScript unwraps XPCNativeWrapper scope parameter 1.9.2 branch MFSA 2011-47 Potential XSS against sites using Shift-JIS MFSA 2011-48 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:8.0 MFSA 2011-49 Memory corruption while profiling using Firebug MFSA 2011-50...

Cross-origin data theft using canvas and Windows D2D — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Bas Schouten reported that the introduction of the "Azure" graphics back-end on Windows in Firefox 7 re-introduced the cross-origin data theft issue reported by nasalislarvatus3000 as described in MFSA 2011-29...

Potential XSS against sites using Shift-JIS — Mozilla

Yosuke Hasegawa reported that the Mozilla browser engine mishandled invalid sequences in the Shift-JIS encoding. When encountering an invalid pair Mozilla would turn the entire two-byte sequence into a single unknown character rather than an unknown character followed by a valid single-byte...

DUQU – Another Stuxnet in the Making ?

DUQU – Another Stuxnet in the Making ? Article by : Nidhi Rastogi is a Cyber security professional based in New York. Article shared from THE HACKER NEWS magazine - November Edition. You can download Complete Magazine here. Barely a year into discovering Stuxnet, the world recently saw its powerf...

Duqu Trojan found in Indian Server

Duqu Trojan found in Indian Server Last week we update you about Duqu when Symantec said it had found a mysterious computer virus that contained code similar to Stuxnet, a piece of malware believed to have wreaked havoc on Iran's nuclear program. Two workers at a web-hosting company called Web...

Most advanced and dangerous malware for Apple products - why you should be concerned !

Most advanced and dangerous malware for Apple products - Why you should be concerned ! Indian security researcher from MalCon has created an advanced and dangerous malware for Apple products which can not only compromize your privacy but also steal important data and let hackers control your...

Most advanced and dangerous malware for Apple products - why you should be concerned !

Most advanced and dangerous malware for Apple products - Why you should be concerned ! Indian security researcher from MalCon has created an advanced and dangerous malware for Apple products which can not only compromize your privacy but also steal important data and let hackers control your...

NSA Director Says U.S. Working to Push Attack Data to ISPs

WASHINGTON–The commander of the U.S. Cyber Command said that the federal government is working on a system now that would allow it to work with ISPs and others to help stop ongoing attacks against government and private networks by pushing intelligence and attack signatures to them. Gen. Keith...

Japanese Parliament Struggling To Address Hack, Data Theft

The fallout from a targeted attack on computers belonging to members of the Japanese House of Representatives continued on Tuesday, with claims that both servers and PCs on the House network were infected with a password stealing Trojan, and reports that House members had taken to storing sensiti...

Suspect in "Hackerazzi" Case Says He Will Plead Guilty

A 35 year-old Florida man is facing a lengthy prison term after being arrested in connection with high profile hacks of the Web-based email accounts of more than 50 celebrities, including Hollywood ingenue Scarlett Johansson. According to a copy of the indictment PDF, Christopher Chaney of...

Microsoft Targets SpyEye Trojan in Latest MSRT Update

The company takes aim at the ubiquitous SpyEye banking trojan with its free Malicious Software Removal Tool MSRT, saying that the malware is more common than ever, and is being used to grab data from sensitive online sessions. In a blog post on Wednesday on the company’s Malware Protection Center...

Code injection

A certain HTC update for Android 2.3.4 build GRJ22, when the Sense interface is used on the HTC EVO 3D, EVO 4G, ThunderBolt, and unspecified other devices, provides the HtcLoggers.apk application, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to obtain a list of telephone numbers from a log, and...

The Dangers of Second-Order Vulnerabilities

SAN FRANCISCO–There are dozens of new bugs discovered every week in popular applications, and many of them are painted as critical flaws that need to be patched immediately lest you risk the wrath of the attackers. However, in many cases, it’s not necessarily those highly publicized flaws that wi...

New DroidDream Variant Has Ability To Fight Off Other Malware

DroidDream, a malicious program that targets Android devices, received a major overhaul, and now contains more features for stealing data and phishing the owners of compromised Android phones and tablets, according to a Trend Micro researcher. The latest update to the DroidDream malware, which...

Nude Scarlett Johansson Photos Believed Part of Larger Attacks on Hollywood Celebs

Nude photos of Hollywood film star Scarlett Johansson appeared online this week, adding yet another name to a growing list of Hollywood celebrities who have had sensitive data and photos stolen from personal computers, cell phones, e-mail and Twitter accounts in a wide ranging campaign of targete...